MGASA-2022-0386 - Updated poppler packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Oct 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0386.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2022-38784

Poppler prior to and including 22.08.0 contains an integer overflow in the
JBIG2 decoder (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIGStream.cc).
Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2 image could lead to a
crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the
vulnerability described by CVE-2022-38171 in Xpdf. (CVE-2022-38784)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30805
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/02/11
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5224
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5606-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5606-2
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TQAO6O2XHPQHNW2MWOCJJ4C3YWS2VV4K/
- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-3120
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-38784

SRPMS:
- 8/core/poppler-20.12.1-1.2.mga8

Mageia 2022-0386: poppler security update

Poppler prior to and including 22.08.0 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIGStream.cc)

Summary

Poppler prior to and including 22.08.0 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIGStream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2 image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the vulnerability described by CVE-2022-38171 in Xpdf. (CVE-2022-38784)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30805

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/02/11

- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5224

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5606-1

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5606-2

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TQAO6O2XHPQHNW2MWOCJJ4C3YWS2VV4K/

- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-3120

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-38784

Resolution

MGASA-2022-0386 - Updated poppler packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 8/core/poppler-20.12.1-1.2.mga8

Severity
Publication date: 23 Oct 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0386.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-38784

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